A framing that contrasts anti-union attitudes by tech mgmt with “worker perks” or “worker-friendly policies” is off. These things are not in tension. The combo is how Silicon Valley fights unionization— from HP and Fairchild in the 60s to today. nytimes.com/2019/11/20/tec… 
Well, that, and the threat of hiring cheaper, more compliant labor elsewhere. Even by the early 70s, semiconductor and electronics companies had incorporated Asian workers into their production networks.
For decades, Silicon Valley has been explicitly anti-union. When SV had hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, this anti-unionism was world famous. Google is firmly within the tradition of the area, not outside it.
If you’d like to read a great book about this (and many other things), I recommend @margaretomara’s The Code. Go buy it! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534709/t…
@margaretomara Oh and for another perspective on the (relatively unknown) unionization battles of the 70s/80s, it’s hard to beat Christophe Lécuyer’s lecture at the @ComputerHistory Museum.
